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Auction: 17011 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins Part 5, Tudor and Stuart Coins
Lot: 1505

Henry VII (1485-1509), tentative issue, Groat, 2.64g, m.m. lis/greyhound head 2, henric di gra rex angl z fra, saltire stops both sides, crowned bust right, double band to crown, 6 uprights on arch, rev. posvi dev adivtore mev, shield on long cross fourchée (N.1744; S.2256; Stewartby p.437, 2b/c), some very minor edge splits, otherwise about very fine, extremely rare

provenance:
H Montagu, Sotheby, 11-16 May 1896, lot 695
J G Murdoch, Sotheby, 31 March-4 April 1903, lot 400
H W Morrieson, Sotheby 20-24 November 1933, lot 230
H M Lingford
R C Carlyon-Britton
SNC March 1997, 795
Bt A H Baldwin, January 2005

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